Wasserturm Speyer, Water tower in Speyer, Germany

Wasserturm Speyer is a 36-metre water tower built of red clinker brick with yellow sandstone window lintels. Its exterior shows three parts: a twelve-sided base bearing the year 1883 on the door lintel, a three-storey shaft divided into twelve fields with narrow window slits, and a projecting tank storey with twelve blind windows. The roof compresses a hipped roof, tambour and lantern into a stepped form.

The 36-metre tower was built in 1883 on the initiative of Adolf Friedrich Lindemann, an engineer living in England. From 1882 to 1883 he had Speyer's first modern drinking-water network laid, with 20 km of pipes and 105 hydrants, after cholera epidemics struck the city in the 1870s. Because German banks refused financing, an English company under Ch. Marschall funded the project; in 1914 it was placed under state supervision and in 1917 liquidated, passing the tower to the city.

The tower shapes the neighborhood's visual identity and serves as a local landmark that residents pass daily. Its distinctive brick appearance makes it a recognizable point of reference throughout the western district.

The tower is located in the western residential area and is easily visible from nearby streets, making it simple to locate. The building continues to function as an active water supply facility while being protected as a heritage monument.

The tower is an early example of a suspended-floor tank design, similar to installations later built in Pirmasens and on the Martinshöhe. Its exterior openly shows the three-part division of base, shaft and tank, and the lintel of the base door carries the year 1883.